Ben Jonson and the Cavalier Poets琼森和骑士派诗人

This volume offers an abundant and representative selection of the verse of Ben Jonson and the Cavalier poets. Jonson is represented by a wide selection from the Epigrams, including the mock epic "On the Famous Voyage"; The Forest,complete; extensive selections from Underwood, including such well-known pieces as "A Celebration of Charis" and the Cary-Morison ode, together with the "Epithalamion" on the Weston-Stuart nuptials and "An Execration Upon Vulcan"; and more. Also included is a copious selection from the works of Richard Corbett, Robert Herrick (eighty-two poems from Hesperides and fifteen from His Noble Numbers), Thomas Carew, James Shirley, Mildmay Fane, Thomas Randolph, Edmund Waller, William Habington, Sir John Suckling, Sidney Godolphin, William Cartwright, James Graham (Marquis of Montrose), Sir John Denham, Richard Lovelace, Abraham Cowley, Henry Vaughan, and Thomas Stanley.

Preface
The Texts of the Poems
Ben Jonson
From The Works of Benjamin ]onson (1616)
From Epigrams
　 I: To the Reader
　 II: To My Book
　 IV: To King James
　 IX: To All. To Whom I Write
　 XI: On Something That Walks Somewhere
　 XIV: To William Camden
　 XVIII: To My Mere English Censurer
　 XXII: On My First Daughter
　 XXIII: To John Donne
　 XLV: On Mv First Son
　 LV: To Francis Beaumont
　 LIX: On Spies
　 LXIX: To Pertinax Cob
　 LXXVI: On Lucy. Countess of Bedford
　 LXXIX: To Elizabeth. Countess of Rutland
　 LXXXIII: To a Friend
　 XCI: To Sir Horace Vere
　 XCIV: To Lucy, Countess of Bedford. with
　 Mr. Donne's Satires
　 XCVI: To Iohn Donne
　 CI: Inviting a Friend to Supper
　 CXX: Epitaph on S. P., a Child of Q. El. Chapel
　 CXXIV: Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.It.
　 CXXVIII: To William Roe
　 CXXXIII: On the Famous Voyage
　The Forest
　 I: Why I Write Not Of Love
　 II: To Penshurst
　 III: To Sir Robert Wroth
　 IV: To the World: A Farewell for a Gentlewoman,
　 Virtuous and Noble
　 V: Song: To Celia
　 VI: To the Same
　 VII: Song: That Women Are But Men's Shadows
　 VIII: To Sickness
　 IX: Song: To Celia
　 X: ["And must I sing? What subject shall I choose?"]
　 XI : Epode
　 XII: Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland
　 XIII: Epistle to Katharine, Lady Aubigny
　 XIV: Ode to Sir William Sydney, on His Birthday
　 XV: To Heaven
　From The Works of Benjamin Jonson (%4o--164a)
From Underwood
A Hymn to God the Father
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Saviour
A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces
　1. His Excuse for Loving
　 2. How He Saw Her
　 3. What He Suffered
　 4. Her Triumph
　 5. His Discourse with Cupid
　 6. Claiming a Second Kiss by Desert
　 7. Begging Another, on Color of Mending the Former
　 8. Urging Her of a Promise
　 9. Her Man Described by Her Own Dictamen
　　10. Another Lady's Exception Present at the Hearing
　 The Musical Strife, in a Pastoral Dialogue
In the Person of Womankind: A Song Apologetic
Another, in Defence of Their Inconstancy: A Song
A Nymph's Passion
The Hourglass
My Picture Left in Scotland
The Dream
An Epitaph on Master Vincent Corbett
An Epistle to Master John Selden
A Little Shrub Growing By
An Elegy ["Though beautv be the mark of praise"]
An Ode to Himself ["Where dost thou careless lie"]
　 An Ode ["High-spirited friend"]
A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth
A Fit of Rhyme Against Rhyme
An Execration Upon Vulcan
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